Abstract:
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This talk will discuss a redesign of Introduction to Biostatistics at Penn State, although the changes discussed are just as applicable to a general introductory statistics course. The first goal of this redesign was to change the way inference was taught by introducing inference using simulation-based methods. The second goal was to shift the focus to using data to answer interesting questions by designing each class and lab to address a real question from the biological sciences. This talk will discuss the changes, challenges, and resulting improvement on learning.
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